The benevolent banner. [volume] (North Topeka, Kan.) 1887-18??, 1887-06-04
GENERAL NEWS


congratulates the church upon the progress
that has been made toward restoration of
religious peace in Prussia. His holiness
expresses the hope that complete concord
may be established in that country and ia
other parts of Germany between church and
state, and an earnest desire for compost
ton of the differences between the Italian
government and the Vatican.
The Illinois senate has passed the bill
requiring the railroad aud warehouse com
mission to investigate the causes of railroad
accidents when attended by loss of life or
injury to persons.
The Pail Mall Gazette charges Canon
Fleming, one of the "chaplains in ordinary"
to the queen, with palmirg off one of DR..
Talmage's ermons as his own in volume
OF discourses he has just published. The
charge reflects no less upon the taste than
upon the honesty of the canon.
A tornado at Idana, Kansas, wrecked five
dwellings, and a school house, blew loaded
cars from railroad track, and carried away
several bridges.
Two more Irish priests who were impris-
oned for refusing to testify regarding the
"plan of campaign" have been released
under the decision of the court of appeals
in the case of Father Keller.
Sir Algernon Borthwick, a conservative
member of parliament and proprietor of
The London Morning Post, says in an ad
dress TO his constituents that after the Whit
suntide recess the government will force the
coercion bill to speedy passage. whether
or no all amendments are disposed OF.
A big flow of natural gas has been struck
near Norfolk, Ohio, at depth of 16O feet.
Violence and van daism are rampantin the
mining districts of Belgium. Many arrests
have been made, In Brussels professions and
%hnw inn ho Of hnnT
prohibited owing to the recent socialist
demonstrations.
A Cairo dispatch says England and Turkey
will propose a congress of the powers to
settle the Egyptian question.
Sir Charles Upper, the Canadian minister
of finance, in an interview at New York eX-
pressed regret as the violence offered Mr.
O'Brien at Toronto and other Dominion
cities, while deprecating the agitator's mis-
sion to Canada. Speaking of the COM
mercial relations between Canada and the
United States he declared that complete
customs union between the two countries
would be impracticable, because Canada
would never adopt the United States tariff
as against England. Although nOn- inter
course between Canada and the United
States would not be without advantages to
the former, he said he never expected to see
such policy adopted.
The Woman's Christian Temperance union
of Indiana adopted resolutions indOrsing
Mrs. Emma Molloy, who is under jndict-
ment as an accessory to the Graham-Lee
murder in Missouri.
George William Curtis, in an address upon
the political situation before the Common
wealth club, of New York, said that "the
president, amid incalculable difficulties,
had been endeavor1ng to carry out his
convictions upon the subject of clviI-service
REFORM" but that he chad met with enor-
nous distractions, and the most enormous
was the democratic party ITSELF" He
predicted that the result of the election next
year "would depend more upon the candidates
than upon the party that nominated Them"
The German reichstag has ratified the in
ternational treaties for the protection of
works of literature andart and of submarine
cables.
Elk Secretary Manning will sail from Liv-
erpool tor New York June /. His health is
said to be much improved
The best score in the competitive rifle
practice at Washington, participated in by
attendants upon the national drill was made
by Lieutenant Pollard, of the Washington
Light infantry corps.
It is rumored at the City of Mexico that
the contract for operating the mint in that
city is to be transferred to an English syn
dictate for 81 ,50O,O 900, including the purchase
of machinery, etc.
The condition of the wheat crop in the
northwest has been greatly improved by the
recent rains. and the prospects are now
highly encouraging.
Milwaukee brewers disposed of 1,217,17
barrels of beer, valued at So, 737, 400, during
the twelve months ending May /.
The United States supreme court has de-
MED the petition for a rehearing in the
Maxwell land grant case, which means that
the most gigantic land steal on record is an
accomplished fact.
The quarantine proclaimed by the agri-
cultural department at Washington against
Cook county cattle does not apply to cattle
offered for shipment from the Chicago
stock yards.
k. G Dunn b Co. in their weekly trade
review report a general improvement in
crop prospects throughout the country. The
financial future is affected by the large re-
ceipts of the treasury. Foreign commerce
does not improve, the imports for April
exceeding the exports by nearly $16.0l0OO0.
The decline in exports is attributed rather to
the prevailing speculations than to the in
terstate commerce act. Railroad earnings
are large and encouraging. Trade in most
lines of merchandise Is active. The busine less
failures during the week in the United States
and Canada mum bered 175, against $50 for
the corresponding week of last year.
Lord Colin Campbell, who has been ad-
judged a bankrupt. owes 5000. of which
$1,000 represents the costs of his divorce
proceedings. Domestic scandals come high,
but the British Rristocracy must have them.
General Robert Newton is dying of para
lytic storke at his home in Little Rock, Ark.
The Presbyterian general assembly at
Omaha has appointed committee TO confer
with similar committee, already appointed
by the southern assembly at st. Louis, upon
the subject of the proposed reunion between
the northern and southern churches. Judg-
ing from the tone of the st. Louis assembly.
the conference will be without rractiral "a